About the author

Owen Walker is an award-winning journalist who has covered business and investment issues in the US, UK and continental Europe. He is a commissioning editor within the Financial Times’s London-based Special Reports team, having previously been managing editor of Agenda, the FT’s specialist publication for US corporate directors. He has served as a director on the board of the Pearson Group Pension Plan.

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